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Submitted January 31, 2005 - 2:58 pm by Judith Gips
just one last thought.  I hope.

seems to me we're showing a little knowledge of The Other by even identifying in a fun-poking way as gringos. which, in this funny looking-glass of "who's got it and who doesn't have a clue as to where to look for a clue" is probably a way of saying we have a little more sense than the guy...I not only knew him; I traveled in the same van with him... who think he's "blending in" in the hills around Oaxaca wearing a woman's shawl and not realizing the sentence he thought he said in Spanish made absolutely no sense whatsoever...

we all got our pride and understanding our gringo foolishness sometimes feeds it, and that's okay too.

I think. or maybe I need a nap before my next class.

Judith

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